Ryan Lizza wrote about Obama’s Chief of Staff (and self-styled “Undersecretary for Go Fuck Yourself”), Rahm Emanuel, and about the budget director Peter Orszag, who has become “the unlikely guardian of Obamaism.”

* _New Yorker_ staffers [have been poring over the newest batch of torture memos for new nuggets of information and possible consequences](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/torture-memos/).